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Disorder vs. Disease

One of the most amazing things in our modern world, awash in information, is how little we actually know. We are literally drowning in words, yet dying of thirst for any true knowledge.

Recently we had a person seek help from our clinic. Her story is all to familiar and common. She is suffering and has tried the conventional medical approach to no avail. She then went to a naturopath and he was perplexed by her problem and could offer no help. Most of our patients are those who have tried many other things and either gotten some relief or none, but in all cases, no real resolution of their problems.

I once had a patient who came with a simple question: Why am I still very sick despite following all the advice on how to get healthy?

It is easy to fix little issues, but it seems that most of our health problems are now complex and in many cases, what is supposed to work doesn’t or what once worked no longer helps. And in most cases, despite our best efforts we seem to still get sicker and sicker. To address chronic illness requires not a one-size fits all or a simple ‘take this for X’, but a complete system of healthcare. With the current system, we cannot get ‘there’ (health) from ‘here’ (sickness). We need a new system grounded in science, in natural and spiritual law, to address not just the body, but also the mind, soul and spirit. Heilkunst is such an approach to healthcare.

You will not find information on this blog, such as what to take for what. We are drowning in this kind of information, but dying of thirst for any real knowledge about chronic conditions and disease and how to restore health. What you will find is knowledge about a complete system of healthcare that already exists to treat chronic, complex conditions regardless of the ‘name’ put on them, whether ASD, GERD or IBS, or simpler names such as arthritis, depression or chronic fatigue.

In our first blog, we gave you the overview. Now, we are going to explore it one part at a time. The first part is knowledge about the difference between a disorder and a disease? They are not the same. Their difference arises from a fact of our nature. We are energy beings in a material body. We each contain a living, dynamic energy that gives us life. At the material level, there is no difference between a living person and someone who suddenly died. The corpse, however, cannot get sick, cannot be infected with disease, cannot be insulted, defend itself, digest food, suffer physical trauma, etc. Life biological does not come from or exist at the material, physiochemical level, but at a higher level. The life within us determines our functioning, both physically and psychologically. If there is an impairment anywhere, which we feel, sense or experience, it is due to an impairment first in this life force.

This life force within each of us has a dual nature:

– one side maintains, sustains our health, and when our state of health is challenged in any way, reacts to restore balance – we call this the sustentive side

– the other side is responsible for growth and reproduction, which we term the generative side.

Now, if there is simply a disturbance of the sustentive side we suffer a disorder. This disorder can be resolved by addressing the cause of the imbalance. If it is due to something we need to do, but didn’t do, we need to do it. For example, if we need certain nutrients, such as Vitamin C and we are not getting enough somehow, we can resolve the problem by taking more Vitamin C, preferably in its whole, natural form.

If, on the other hand, there is an impingement that affects our generative power, such as in the case of an infectious agent, such as a lyme spirochete, we have an imbalance, but this imbalance is a disease. A disease cannot be corrected simply by taking more vitamins or nutrients. Doing so may strengthen our immune system to fight the spirochete, and so is useful in the initial phase, but if we somehow lose the fight, it infects us, and lodges itself in our generative power. At this point, we need a different approach. This is where medicine comes in, but not chemical medicine. Chemical medicine cannot address the cause of the disease, but only address symptoms, but often at a high cost in terms of so-called ‘side effects’, which are really new disease effects (iatrogenic diseases).

So, a disorder is like a temporary imbalance that can be corrected fairly easily usually with what we call lifestyle changes, but a disease is a deeper, more serious problem, and requires a specific treatment based on knowledge of disease.

Next week, we’ll cover the two natural laws of cure – one for disorders and one for disease. So, it is important to know which is which, and even just to know that they are different. Stay tuned.

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3 thoughts on “Disorder vs. Disease”

Very good bog series – this takes Heilkunst principles down to a basic level, where anyone can undertand them for themselves, despite not having any specialized training. Patients are always asking me if I can recomend anything they can read to further their understanding of treatment, and articles like this can be a perfect starting point.